Bee Palmer

Bee Palmer

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Bee Palmer

Bee Palmer (11 September 1894 – 22 December 1967), was a United States singer and dancer. She was born Beatrice C. Palmer in Chicago.

Palmer first attracted significant attention as one of the first exponents of the “shimmy” dance in the late 1910s. She was sometimes credited as the creator of the “shimmy” (although there were other claimants at the time as well).

She made a few recordings which were not issued at the time (including a session with Frankie Trumbauer). Thanks to surviving test pressings/masters, the recordings were finally issued in the 1990s and 2000s.